The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-05-21
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Our Richest Women.
By Zach Chandler.

The death of the rich Catherine Wolfe
calls attention to the rich women of the
United States. This is an age not only Of
millionaires, but of millionairesses as well.
The wealthy women of the United States
are now numbered by hundreds, and every
city has its girls who are worth their weight
in gold The richest woman of them all
is, perhaps, Mrs. Hetty Green, of New
York, who is worth 3O,000,000, and has
been estimated as high as s40,OOO,0 900.
She is sharp business woman, and has
made the S13,000,000 which she received
from her father breed rapidly. She added
81 100000 to her fortune by marriage,
and she cuts her expenses more closely
than many woman who is worth thou
sand times less Mrs Mark Hopkins, who
is building a S2,000,000 palace at Great
Darlington, Mass, is, however, nearly as
rich. She is worth somewhere between
S20,0C0,0O0 and S40,000,00O, but her
money comes from her husband, Mark
Hopkins, who made fortune out of the
Central Pacific railroad. Hopkins estate
when he died was worth fully one-third
more. Nearly the whole of this was left
to Mrs. Hopkins, and she spends her large
income generously. Mrs. Terry got one
third of her husbands fortune of about
S9O,OOO,0O0, and in case her baby dies she
will get the rest. This baby is girl not
yet 2 years old. She is worth at least
S25, 1000, 900, and is said to be the wealth
lest baby in the world.
Mrs. Jacob Astor, of New York, is said
to be worth SS,00O,0O0, and all her rela-
tives have gold galore Mrs. Thomas A.
Scott, the widow of the railroad president
is worth $4,000, 900, and Mrs. Joseph
Harrison, the widow of the man who built
the first railroad in Russia, $4,000, 900.
Mrs. Jayne, the widow of the patent med
icine man, is worth s3,000,000. Mrs. Jo-
sephine NJ. Aver, who gets her money also
from patent medicine, is estimated to be
worth from S4,000,000 to $4,000, 900, and
Mrs. Edwin Stevens, of New York, has
S15,0O0,00O.
New York has number of other rich
widows. Mrs. Martin Bates was left ST.
100000, which her husband made in dry
goods, and Mrs. Jane Brown received from
her husbands estate about S4,000,000,
which was accumulated in banking. Mrs.
w. Z. Dodge, estimated at $4,000, 600,
sends much of her income to the heather,
and Mrs. Robert Goelet, worth $4,000, 600,
owes her fortune to hardware. Mrs. John
c. Green is said to be worth $4,000, 900,
and Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt has in
creased the 81 100000 which she received
from her husbands estate until it is near
S2,OO0,00O. Clarkson Potter's widow has
an immense income. Mrs. John Minturn
is worth S2,OOO,OO0. Mrs. Marshall O.
Roberts. the eight millionaire widow of a
mining king, is said to have cried when it
was charged that she was about to marry
President Arthur.
Philadelphia widows are numerous, and
there are rich women of all kinds in the
City of Brotherly Love-. l have spoken
of Mrs. Tom Scott's wealth. Mrs. Disston,
the widow of the saw manufacturer who
died not long ago, is worth 81 100000,
and she lives in a marble palace Mrs
John Ray Barton is worth S7,000,000;
Mrs. NJ w. Baldwin, the widow of the To-
comotive builder, is estimated as worth
S2,000,000, and Mrs. Charles Bromley,
the widow of carpet manufacturer, is
worth about 81, 100000.
There is widow in Chicago, Mrs. H.
Mccormick, who is said to be worth S10,-
100000, and as to Washington's wealthy
widows, they are many. Mrs. Admiral
Dahlgren has several fine houses in the
fashionable part of Washington, and Mrs.
John O. Evans, the widow of the late
president of the Mutual Union Telegraph
Company, owns much Washington real es-
tate. Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, of New
York, has a fine residence on Massachu-
sets avenue, and is said to be worth
81 100000. Mrs. Patten, the mother-in-
law of Congressman Glover, lives in a
house worth 5000, and keeps, it is said,
100000 in government bonds in the
Washington banks.
As to rich young women there are
numerous good catches in the United
States. Miss Elizabeth Garrett, the sister
of the president of the baltimore aud Ohio
railroad, is said to be worth between
s15,OO0,O and 2O,OOO,OOO and she is
both bright and business like. The three
daughters of Francis A. Drexel, of Phila-
delphia, are worth s4,00O,OO0, and there
is millionaire girl in Tennessee named
Maud St. Pierre, who lately bought 34,-
900 acres of coal lands and who has
enough business ability to manage her own
fortune and husband as well. One of
the richest young ladies in Washington is
Miss Jennie Riggs, whose father, George W.
Riggs, was a partner of W. W. Corcoran,
and there is Miss Bernice Morrison in
St. Louis who several years ago was down
on the tax lists as being worth 1904 $3.50.
Miss Clothilde Palms, the Detroit beauty,
whom Senator Jones in vain tried to WOO,
is said to be worth, S2,6O0,000, and she is
as beautiful as she is rich, and there is now
hardly city in the United States which
has not an heiress or two whose fortune
runs high into the hundreds of thousands
Miss Benson, of Philadelphia, inherited
81, 100000 from her father, who was a
well known Philadelphia banker, aud Miss
Helen Erben, another Philadelphia girl,
the daughter of wealthy wool factor, is
also worth million.
Miss Erben is fine horsewoman. She
drives spanking pair of bay horses, and
often tandem The Drexel girls are also
fond of horses, and this is, in fact, their
only dissipation. Each of these three four
millionairesses has splendid Arabian steed
which goes like the wind They ride out
from their country seat near Philadelphia
as early as six o'clock in the morning, and
they 60 galloping about the country until
their cheeks are like roses. They are said
to be as well posted on horses as veterina-
ry surgeons, and they sometimes, it is said,
rub down their horses themselves after
they come in from hard drive. Mrs.
Mark Hopkins is another great horse
woman. She is as fond of horses as was
her husband, and her stables at Great
Darlington are among the completest and
most comfortable in the country. She
keeps well bred horses, and every fair day
you may see her about Great Darlington
driving behind pair of fine trotters and
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